Cyperaceae taxon details
Carex vaginata Tausch
1677340 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1677340)
accepted
Species
Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy · unaccepted
Carex sparsiflora subsp. altocaulis Kük. · unaccepted
Carex vaginata f. distracta Norm. · unaccepted
- Variety Carex vaginata var. petersii (C.A.Mey. ex F.Schmidt) Akiyama
- Variety Carex vaginata var. vaginata
- Forma Carex vaginata f. distracta Norm. accepted as Carex vaginata Tausch
- Subspecies Carex vaginata subsp. quasivaginata (C.B.Clarke) Malyschev accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
- Variety Carex vaginata var. altocaulis Dewey accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
- Variety Carex vaginata var. curvirostra (Hartm.) Nyman accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
- Variety Carex vaginata var. gruetteri Asch. & Graebn. accepted as Carex vaginata var. vaginata
terrestrial
Tausch, I. F. (1821). Beschreibungen neuer Pflanzen aus dem Riesengebirge. <em>Flora oder Botanische Zeitung.</em> 4(2): 557-572., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17818#page/181/mode/1up
page(s): 557 [details]
page(s): 557 [details]
Description Rhizomes far-creeping with tufted shoots, brown roots and grey-brown fibrous scales; stems 15–40 cm, trigonous-subterete...
Description Rhizome slender stoloniferous. Culms 20-50 cm tall, slender, obtusely trigonous, smooth, leafy at lower part. Leaves much...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Flora 4: 557 1821 to Flora 4: 557 (1821), information provided by...
Description Rhizomes far-creeping with tufted shoots, brown roots and grey-brown fibrous scales; stems 15–40 cm, trigonous-subterete and striate; leaves up to 60 cm and 3–6 mm wide, keeled, parallel-sided for much of their length and rather abruptly tapered to a flat point, yellow- to bronze-green, basal leaves decumbent and those on the flowering stem subulate, present only at the very base and 1–3 cm long, hypostomous, with pale brown to dirty-white loose sheaths and a ligule about 2 mm, obtuse to subacute. The inflorescence reaches three-quarters of the stem length, with lower bracts loosely sheathing (funnel-shaped) and shorter than the spike. The male spike is single, 1–1.5 cm, ± clavate, with male glumes more than 4.5 mm, orange-brown with a paler midrib. Female spikes 1–2(–3), 1–2 cm, ± distant, erect, few- and lax-flowered, with female glumes 3 mm, broadly ovate, red-brown with a paler midrib and an acute or mucronate apex. Utricles 3.8–5 mm, broadly obovoid, hardly inflated and ribbed, with a beak obliquely truncate, about 1 mm; stigmas 3; nut ovoid-trigonous. [details]
Description Rhizome slender stoloniferous. Culms 20-50 cm tall, slender, obtusely trigonous, smooth, leafy at lower part. Leaves much...
Description Rhizome slender stoloniferous. Culms 20-50 cm tall, slender, obtusely trigonous, smooth, leafy at lower part. Leaves much shorter than culm, blades 3-5 mm wide or wider, flat, slightly soft; sheaths brown, sometimes purplish red. Involucral bracts with long sheath and rather short blade. Spikes 2-4, usually 3, rather remote; terminal spike male, subclavate, 1-1.5 cm; lateral spikes female, oblong-cylindric or oblong, 1-2.5 cm, loosely several flowered; peduncles long and erect. Female glumes ferruginous-brown, broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm, membranous, green 3-veined, margins hyaline, apex obtuse or acute. Utricles yellow-green, obliquely patent, longer than glume, ovate, inflated trigonous, 4-6 mm, subleathery, glabrous, indistinctly veined, base broadly cuneate, apex abruptly narrowed into a short or medium-sized beak, orifice emarginate or 2-toothed. Nutlets rather loosely enveloped in utricle, obovate, trigonous, ca. 2.5 mm, base shortly stipitate; style base slightly thickened; stigmas 3. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Flora 4: 557 1821 to Flora 4: 557 (1821), information provided by...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Flora 4: 557 1821 to Flora 4: 557 (1821), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant L [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Carex vaginata Tausch. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1677340 on 2026-05-21
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Nomenclature
original description
Tausch, I. F. (1821). Beschreibungen neuer Pflanzen aus dem Riesengebirge. <em>Flora oder Botanische Zeitung.</em> 4(2): 557-572., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17818#page/181/mode/1up
page(s): 557 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 557 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Lu, Y.; Benítez‐Benítez, C.; Yano, O.; Ikeda, H.; Jung, S.; Kim, S.; Jiménez‐Mejías, P.; Jin, X. (2025). East Asia–eastern North America disjunction revisited: Possible westward colonization route via the Western Palearctic in <i>Carex</i> sect. <i>Paniceae</i> (Cyperaceae). <em>Journal of Systematics and Evolution.</em> 63(4): 974-987., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13174 [details] Available for editors 
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taxonomy source Jermy, A.C.; Simpson, D.A.; Foley, M.J.Y.; Porter, M.S. (2007). Sedges of the British Isles. 554 pp. Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, United Kingdom. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]taxonomy source Jermy, A.C.; Simpson, D.A.; Foley, M.J.Y.; Porter, M.S. (2007). Sedges of the British Isles. 554 pp. Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland, United Kingdom. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Li, B. Z.; Zhang, S. R. (2024). An updated species checklist and taxonomic synopsis of Cyperaceae in China. <em>Biodiversity Science.</em> 32(7): 24106., available online at https://doi.org/10.17520/biods.2024106 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype LE 00010411, geounit Czech Republic [details]
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Additional information 2n=26-32 [details]Description Rhizomes far-creeping with tufted shoots, brown roots and grey-brown fibrous scales; stems 15–40 cm, trigonous-subterete and striate; leaves up to 60 cm and 3–6 mm wide, keeled, parallel-sided for much of their length and rather abruptly tapered to a flat point, yellow- to bronze-green, basal leaves decumbent and those on the flowering stem subulate, present only at the very base and 1–3 cm long, hypostomous, with pale brown to dirty-white loose sheaths and a ligule about 2 mm, obtuse to subacute. The inflorescence reaches three-quarters of the stem length, with lower bracts loosely sheathing (funnel-shaped) and shorter than the spike. The male spike is single, 1–1.5 cm, ± clavate, with male glumes more than 4.5 mm, orange-brown with a paler midrib. Female spikes 1–2(–3), 1–2 cm, ± distant, erect, few- and lax-flowered, with female glumes 3 mm, broadly ovate, red-brown with a paler midrib and an acute or mucronate apex. Utricles 3.8–5 mm, broadly obovoid, hardly inflated and ribbed, with a beak obliquely truncate, about 1 mm; stigmas 3; nut ovoid-trigonous. [details]
Description Rhizome slender stoloniferous. Culms 20-50 cm tall, slender, obtusely trigonous, smooth, leafy at lower part. Leaves much shorter than culm, blades 3-5 mm wide or wider, flat, slightly soft; sheaths brown, sometimes purplish red. Involucral bracts with long sheath and rather short blade. Spikes 2-4, usually 3, rather remote; terminal spike male, subclavate, 1-1.5 cm; lateral spikes female, oblong-cylindric or oblong, 1-2.5 cm, loosely several flowered; peduncles long and erect. Female glumes ferruginous-brown, broadly ovate, ca. 3 mm, membranous, green 3-veined, margins hyaline, apex obtuse or acute. Utricles yellow-green, obliquely patent, longer than glume, ovate, inflated trigonous, 4-6 mm, subleathery, glabrous, indistinctly veined, base broadly cuneate, apex abruptly narrowed into a short or medium-sized beak, orifice emarginate or 2-toothed. Nutlets rather loosely enveloped in utricle, obovate, trigonous, ca. 2.5 mm, base shortly stipitate; style base slightly thickened; stigmas 3. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Flora 4: 557 1821 to Flora 4: 557 (1821), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in The Plant L [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ケヤリスゲ（Keyari-suge） | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (386 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex vaginata)
To GenBank (83 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex sparsiflora subsp. altocaulis Kük.)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010411 type 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010412 type 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010414 type 1)
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex vaginata f. distracta Norm.)
To Plants of the World Online
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex vaginata Tausch BM001067074 type 1)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex sparsiflora subsp. altocaulis Kük.)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carex vaginata)
To GenBank (83 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Carex sparsiflora subsp. altocaulis Kük.)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010411 type 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010412 type 1)
To LE Herbarium (Carex vaginata LE00010414 type 1)
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Photos of Cyperaceae by Hoshino Labo. from Japan
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex panicea subsp. vaginata (Tausch) Rouy)
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Carex vaginata f. distracta Norm.)
To Plants of the World Online
To the Natural History Museum, London (Carex vaginata Tausch BM001067074 type 1)
To The Plant List (from synonym Carex sparsiflora subsp. altocaulis Kük.)
From editor or global species database
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